Charles Eames Movies

Stop-motion animation depicts a man assembling an Eames lounge chair, sitting down to relax in it, and then disassembling it for shipment.

A rare, live-action, and close-up study of the only existing Babbage Difference Engine, a machine designed in the first quarter of the 19th-Century...

A promotional film for the Eames designed Polaroid Sx-70 camera.

A film record of an exhibition of the late work of Paul Cezanne, organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the Reunion des Musees Nationaux in Paris....

Created as a demonstration of multi-disciplinary thinking, this film was produced in association with UCLA Mathematics professor, Ray Redheffer. With...

Presented without voiceover, various kinds of breads are displayed and broken in a joyous celebration of starch, seed and salt.

The life and work of the astronomer Nicolas Copernicus are shown by means of images of his writings and drawings and places he was associated with.

Atlas gives the viewer an overview of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. Beginning in 500 BC, a time clock at the bottom of the screen marks off...

A multi-screen presentation at the Ovoid Theater of the IBM Pavilion of the New York World's Fair.

An early attempt to present communications theory, made to encourage the breaking down of barriers of thinking between disciplines and to discourage...

The movie "Clown Face" offers a very rare glimpse into the backstage private world of Circus Clowns. Here, you can look behind the curtain. You will...

A visually elegant study of water on a schoolyard playground.

A parable, photographed in live-action, about the use of eating utensils in India. Doubling as a social commentary, this film also examines the...

Symmetry is one of five shorts featured in the film "Mathematical Peep Shows." The collection was made by Charles and Ray Eames for the IBM...

A morality film where Sherlock Holmes solves a case using Boolean logic.

"Based on the exhibition "Photography and the city", designed by the Eames Office for the Smithsonian Institute". A primer on the modern problems of...

Animated graphic symbols presented in a constant time frame are used to diagram and explain the laws of planetary motion devised by the...

Photographed through a mirror system to achieve radial kaleidoscopic images, the beginning portion of this film consists of fast-moving kaleidoscopic...

A film by Charles and Ray Eames

To avoid making travelers walk excessive distances through a large airport, Washington, D.C.'s new airport is to use mobile departure lounges to...